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10 Cards in this Set
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Dejected |
Sad and depressed |
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Diffident |
modest because of lack of self-confidence |
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Ecstatic |
Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness |
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Effusive |
Expressing feelings of gratitude in a heartfelt manner |
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Facetious |
Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor |
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Conceit |
A kind of metaphor that compares two unlike things in a clever way |
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Consonance |
Refers to repetative sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase |
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Couplet |
Two lines of poetry next to each other, especially ones that rhyme and have the same length |
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Dactyl |
A foot in poetic meter with a long syllable followed by two short syllables |
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Deus ex machina |
A very unlikely end to a story or event that solves or removes problems too easily |
